Wildness Journal Quotes & Sayings

How can you become the leader of Romany if you're a prince of Oxenburg?"
"I have three brother. And as Tata Natasha is fond of telling us, there is not room on the throne for four asses. — Karen Hawkins

You had to admire her, and you had to do it fast, because she was about to get all kinds of killed. — Brian Staveley

Aeschylus said, 'In war, truth is the first casualty.' now we can add politics." Captain Hank Bracker — Hank Bracker

As Rockwell Kent said in his Alaskan journal, 'The wonder of wilderness was its tranquility.' I wish I had said that first. It grasps the salient point: not just tranquility, but wonder at tranquility. Wilderness is a surprise. We were raised on nature films that converted nature into thrilling entertainment; we still expect to find predators lurking everywhere in the wildness, and danger and excitement. But instead we find tranquility. And wonder at it.

Interesting word, "wonder." From Old English wundrain: 'to be affected with astonishment.' Its antonyms name the most pervasive symptoms of modern life: indifference, boredom, ennui. The dictionary strains to explain wonder, mentioning awe, astonishment, marvel, miracle, wizardry, bewilderment (note the 'wild' in 'bewilderment'). Finally it offers this: 'Far superior to anything formerly recognized or foreseen.'

Indeed. — Jack Turner

Nobody puts 'Baby' in a corner." (Johnny Castle) — Eleanor Bergstein

He said: I don't like to read. And I said, honey, you haven't found the right girl. — Chloe Thurlow

I was one of those kids who found it difficult to eat anything that looked like an animal. — Gina McKee

All my life I have said, "Whatever happens there will always be tables and chairs"
and what a mistake. — Elizabeth Bowen

Create a fog within a fog — Lorraine Heath

She was beautiful
but especially she was without mercy. He must own that strength that could send him away. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I think it's pretty normal that there are a lot of people out there who don't like us. — Gavin Rossdale

I was endeavouring to adjust the faculties, which were in urgent need of a bit of first-aid treatment. — P.G. Wodehouse